Package for cotton-batting.



mgm-i574; PATENTED APR.14,1908.

DEL ROY F. POWLBR.

A PAqkAGE'PoR cin- TON BATTING. prpmynon Ninn' JULY zo. me.

' UNITED sTArnsPArENT OFFICE.

DEL ROY F. rondjes, or MELROSE'PENNSYLVANIA.

' PACKAGE Fon coTToN-BATTING.

No. 884,574. Specification of Letters Patent. lPatented April 14, 1908.` Application tiled July 20, 1905. 'Serial No. 270,472.

To all whom, it may concern.' cotton batting which as shown in F' s. 1 and 65 'Be it known that I, DEL Rm' F. FowLER, 6, is folded and afterwards rolled Into the` 'a citizen of the United States, residing at form ofa cylindrical bundle. Melrose, in the county of Montgomery and Il B, represents the wrapping sheetuwhich, as. f State of Pennsylvania, have invcl'itcd-certain t shoe-'n.111 Fi 2 isof somewhat greater width,V

new and useful Improvements in Packages .than the ro of cotton battin andl-wbichis. -for Cotton'fa'tting, of which the following is i tucked or folded in at. the em s as sliown at#y a s Iecifcation. b, b; the last fold as slown being secured to Iy invention relates to the manner of the subsequent folds and to the contents of packing cotton, wool, etc., in suitable packthe package by pins' C, lo prevent the.

ages. for the retail' trade, and is desi ned removal of these pins by accident the ends` of 65 more particularly as a means for pac ing the ackage'areprovidedwithstinn'sorsealslz what is known to the trade as cotton batt-ing i l), which are pasted over the fo ded ends l x which consists of a pressed sheet of carded l of the package n nd inclose the pins inorder cotton or cotton wastefolded and afterwards I' to hold thc pins in iosition. t

rolled into a convenient bundle. a large i In Fig. 5 ofthe dirawings .l have shown n 7o number of packages thus formed are then 4slightly modified forni of my invention in' baled or cased for shipment and it is during which case the package is scuare instead of the paolcin and unpackin of the bales or circular in cross section und in lieu of the lcases thatt le packages are requen'tly broken f pins QC, l provide staples furthe pur--l and' the contents disarranged in such a pose of securing the ends of thc wrapper to 75 manner (as -to cause great- Vinconvenience in the contents of the Jack-age. lllandli g and a consequentdepreciation in Having describer my invention what I tlieva ue of the stock. ln order t-o obviatt/I claim and desire to secure by Letters vPatentlthils difficulty I secure the-wr-a per in such a is: manner that-the fastening or ocking means 1. A package comprising a ln'vcr of cotton 80 willbe located at or near the center of the batting, compact-ly foldedV and aftcrp'ardst package. softhat ressure from without in l rolled into a compact muss. n urn p )ing et aline or casing t e packages will not tend surroundimr the same and boing o sulii ent to re ease the wrapper from the fastening width to al ow the ends lhc'col' to be turned t means nor the fastening means from the in to form overlapping Folds against the ends' contents of'the wra er. o the package., fastening pins adapted to My InventionA w1 be more .fully underpass through the overlapping folds and to be, stoodV by reference to the accompanying. embedded in :md held by the'contcnts of the drawings, in which: l, package and seals inclosing thc fastening pins Figure 1 illustrates a perspective view ot a i or the pur ose specified. e 90 roll` of cotton battingprior to receiving a 2. A hac rage, comprising n sheet of carded wrapper. Fig. 2 illustrates a similar View cotton Iatting lnx-ving the sides compactly with the cotton battin partly inclosed by folded toward ,the center and afterwards 40 the wrapper and the enr. s folded up ready t'o tightly rolled into a coinpnct mass, u. 'rapbe secured by fastening pins. Fig. 3 r'eprepinfr sheet of' greater width than. thc battingl 95 Senlis a like View with the-fastening pins in tucked in at the ends to form overlapping pro er osition. Fig. 4 'shows the same folds,pins engaging these. folds and extend. Wit sea s pasted or otherwise secured to the ing some. distance into thennrss of batting 'ends of the package to prevent anv accidental and held in )lacebv engagement with the. Withdrawal of the pins. Fig. 5 illustrates a contents of tlhe' package and seuls luid over-'10,0

package slightly modiled in shape, being apthe pins and secured by )listino to the ends of. proximatelysquarein cross' section and being the wrapper substantial v as i oscribed. secured b -sta les interposed between the In testnnony whereof l affix in 'ysignatl're '60 folded en( s of t e wrapper and the contents in presence of two witnesses.

" of the package, and Fig.` 6 re resentsa bari- DEL ROY l. ROWLER.

zontal section online G o Fig. 4. l' Witnesses:

Referring to the 'reference letters of the DAVID S. WILLIAMS, drawings; A,- re'presents a pressed sheet of j ARNoIin KATiL. 

